IMPROVED CIVIC LEADERSHIP IN AZ IS GOAL

posted by Michael Chihak

Friday's Arizona Week will explore the new Arizona Center for Civic Leadership and its affiliated Flinn-Brown Leadership Academy.

The academy, based in Phoenix, will graduate its first group of civic leadership trainees on Friday. They will have completed a dozen seminars on a wide array of public issues and topics,

The goal of the program, according to the civic leadership Website: "As Arizona looks toward its second 100 years of statehood, its challenges are increasingly complex. Arizona must ensure its future leaders have the commitment, knowledge, and skills to work together to carry out creative, long-term solutions to pressing problems."

We will interview the founders and leaders of the center and the academy and speak with two of the graduating academy fellows for Friday's program.